Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ...J. Bell, 1782 |
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... wickid Fame ! for there n'is Nothing fo fwifte , lo ! as she is ; O fothe is , Every thyng is wift Though it be coverde with the mift : Eke though that I might durin ever That I have done recovre ' I never , 340 345 350 That it ne fhall ...
... wickid Fame ! for there n'is Nothing fo fwifte , lo ! as she is ; O fothe is , Every thyng is wift Though it be coverde with the mift : Eke though that I might durin ever That I have done recovre ' I never , 340 345 350 That it ne fhall ...
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... wickid loos and worfè Fame , Though ye gode loos have well deserved ; Now goeth your waie , for ye ben ferved . And thou Dan Æolus , ( quod fhe ) Take forthe thy trompe anone , let fe , That is iclepid Sclaundir light , And blowe ther ...
... wickid loos and worfè Fame , Though ye gode loos have well deserved ; Now goeth your waie , for ye ben ferved . And thou Dan Æolus , ( quod fhe ) Take forthe thy trompe anone , let fe , That is iclepid Sclaundir light , And blowe ther ...
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... wickid thewes , Wherfore we pray you on a rowe That our Famè be foche yknowe In al thingis right as it is . I graunte it you , ( quod fe ) ywis ; 745 But what arte thou that faieft this tale , That weriit on thy hofe a pale , 750 And on ...
... wickid thewes , Wherfore we pray you on a rowe That our Famè be foche yknowe In al thingis right as it is . I graunte it you , ( quod fe ) ywis ; 745 But what arte thou that faieft this tale , That weriit on thy hofe a pale , 750 And on ...
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... wickid fendis ther wrathe on ' hem wreche ; Lanterne of light ! thou art ther livis leche . Paradife of plefaunce , gladfome to all gode , O benigne braunchilet of the pine tre , Vinarie ' envermailed , refreshir of bode , Licour ayen ...
... wickid fendis ther wrathe on ' hem wreche ; Lanterne of light ! thou art ther livis leche . Paradife of plefaunce , gladfome to all gode , O benigne braunchilet of the pine tre , Vinarie ' envermailed , refreshir of bode , Licour ayen ...
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... wickid tonge wol alway deme amis . For in thy porte or in thine apparaile If thou be cladde and honeftly be faine , Anone the peple ' of malice wol not faile Without advice or refon for to faine , That thin array is made or wrought in ...
... wickid tonge wol alway deme amis . For in thy porte or in thine apparaile If thou be cladde and honeftly be faine , Anone the peple ' of malice wol not faile Without advice or refon for to faine , That thin array is made or wrought in ...
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Seite 194 - The matter and manner of their tales and of their telling are so suited to their different educations, humours, and callings that each of them would be improper in any other mouth.
Seite 193 - Tis true, I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him; for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse where we find but nine...
Seite 194 - Even the grave and serious characters are distinguished by their several sorts of gravity, their discourses are such as belong to their age, their calling and their breeding — such as are becoming of them and of them only.
Seite 193 - He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his " Canterbury Tales" the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age.
Seite 193 - We can only say that he lived in the infancy of our poetry, and that nothing is brought to perfection at the first. We must be children before we grow men. There was an Ennius, and in process of time a Lucilius and a Lucretius, before Virgil and Horace...
Seite 188 - And who had Canace to wife, That own'd the vertuous Ring and Glass, And of the wondrous Hors of Brass, On which the Tartar King did ride...
Seite 188 - The Truth is, it has been hitherto a little too carelessly handled, and, I think, has had less labor spent about its 1 5 polishing then it deserves. Till the time of King Henry the Eighth, there was scarce any man regarded it but Chaucer, and nothing was written in it which one would be willing to read twice but some of his Poetry, But then it began to raise it self a little, and to sound tolerably well.
Seite 192 - In the first place, as he is the father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer or the Romans Virgil...
Seite 17 - Saxon original, is an abbreviation of AF, or OF; of AT ; of ON, or IN; and often only a corruption of the prepositive particle GE, or Y.
Seite 177 - God then to blind the eyes of them, " for the more commodity of his people, to the intent " that through the reading of his treatises, some fruit " might redound thereof to his church, as no doubt it " did to many. As also I am partly informed of cer...